Months after fighting coronavirus, some now face heart, lung or neurological problems

Orange County Register, Feb. 6, 2021

Kalpna Gupta, UCI Visiting Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hematology/ Oncology

Nutrition, companionship reduce pain in mice with sickle cell disease, UCI-led study finds

Serotonin-boosting antidepressant duloxetine had same effect, could be opioid alternative

Farmers market

A dietary defense against disease

UCI dietitian notes proper nutrition can boost your immune system without breaking your budget

UCI Down syndrome expert Dr. Ira T. Lott examines ABC-DS participant Jeremy Throckmorton

NIH awards over $100 million to examine biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in adults with Down syndrome

Project aims to improve quality of life of aging populations

UCI’s Kalpna Gupta

Cannabis shows potential for mitigating sickle cell disease pain

Clinical trial co-led by UCI professor is first of its kind to use gold-standard methods

These Are the Stories of Heartwarming Generosity and Community Support You Need to Read Right Now

Mother Jones, March 19, 2020

Biomedical engineering graduate student wins American Heart Association fellowship

Courtney Carlson, a second-year doctoral student in biomedical engineering, has won a two-year fellowship from the American Heart Association. She will receive $53,000 from the AHA in support of her research project, which involves creating cells that can record their own developmental history in their DNA and then optimizing those cells to study congenital heart disease. […]

Dr. Shaista Malik

A Heart for Healing

Cardiologist’s family history inspires innovative program to prevent coronary disease

Basis of ‘leaky’ brain blood vessels in Huntington’s disease identified

UCI-led stem cell study points to new treatments for this fatal disorder

Controlling blood pressure, sugar, cholesterol linked to 62 percent lower cardiovascular disease risk in patients with diabetes

UCI report also reveals only 7 percent in major heart studies successfully managed these 3 factors